Research fields:
Literature, culture and society in modern Japan
Research themes:
Study on literary arts in modern Japan, illness and human culture, Japanese view of life and death, Takuboku Ishikawa
[Keywords]
Japanese modern culture, cultural history of illness and human beings, Japanese view of life and death
Main books and papers:
◆“Takuboku Sakuhin kara Kekkaku o Yomitoku – Dansei no Higeki Monogatari to Unmei no Kami kara Kagaku no Omomi eno Henka -” (Reading Tuberculosis from Takuboku’s Works: Men’s Tragic Tales and the Change from God of Fate to the Weight of Science), Shakai Bungaku, No. 55, pp. 31-44, Association for Japanese Social Literature, 2022
◆“Ishikawa Takuboku no Shosetsu ‘Sekiri’ Ron – Kanosei o Himeta Ekibyo Bungaku -” (Treatise on Takuboku Ishikawa’s Novel ‘Dysentery’: Plague Literature with Potential), Nihon Bungaku, Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 27-37, Japanese Literature Association, 2021
◆“Kindai no Ekibyo kara Koronaka no Ima o Kangaeru” (Thinking about the Present of the COVID-19 Pandemic from Modern Epidemics) Shokuminchi Bunka Kenkyu, No. 20, pp.162-164, Colonial Culture Society, 2021
◆“Ishikawa Takuboku Sono Sanbun to Shiso” (Takuboku Ishikawa: His Prose and Thought), Sekaishisosha, 2008
◆“Ishikawa Takuboku Kokusaisei eno Shiza” (Takuboku Ishikawa: A Perspective on Internationalism), Oufu, 2006